Didn’t this movie just set a record for all-time drop in earnings from the first week to the second?
The original Star Wars.
I haven’t seen the new one but I recall film makers complaining that RottenTomatoes.com movie reviews were basically destroying the industry and based on their grumbling, I thought they had figured out a way to dupe reviewers into recommending the movie (by any means necessary). Since the new one has come out, the professional reviewer score on RottenTomatoes.com is 92% (i.e., “fresh” or recommended) and the audience score is 52% (i.e., “rotten” or not recommended). While such differences are not impossible naturally on that site, I do think they gamed the system in light of the money spent on this “franchise” and their earlier complaints that RottenTomatoes was unfair and destructive.